This week’s prompt from https://christinebialczak.com/2023/02/21/simply-6-minutes-welcome-to-the-challenge-02-21-2023/ to write prose, poetry, or anything we like in six minutes. Getting on in years, sitting in a chair, surrounded by old people, wasn’t his idea of fun. He was called a grumpy old man, not by the nurses, but his daughter, who visited him once a week. It wasn’tContinue reading “The Great Escape”
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Food and Clothes?
Written in response to https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/02/20/share-your-world-20th-february/ She asks this week I am grateful I am able to have the money to buy food, that I never go hungry.
Burning News
This week’s prose for https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/author/sadje19/ Fake news, that’s what they call it, but he hadn’t expected the newspaper to burst into flames like a dragon’s angry breath. Okay, the news was hot of the press, but it didn’t happen to the stories he read on-line. Although depending on your opinion, the algorithms chose that forContinue reading “Burning News”
Blogging
TODAY’S QUESTIONS and my answers for Tanya https://saltedcaramel670.wordpress.com/2023/02/20/your-about-page-blogging-insights-3-0-5/. How important is the About page of your blog? It is important to show who I am, and my reasons for writing in the first place. I don’t write under my own name, mainly because I know how dangerous on-line can be. Writer Ravenclaw, my pen nameContinue reading “Blogging”
It’s A Wrap
PROMPT WORD: WRAP Written for https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2023/02/19/sundays-six-sentence-story-word-prompt-250/ ‘It’s a wrap,’ Sophie said, taking the last of the pictures off her camera. The film, so many years in the making, now was finished. She wasn’t sure what would happen next, but there was an Oscar. For the actor, director, or producer? It didn’t matter, it was a teamContinue reading “It’s A Wrap”
Sometimes
My answers for https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/category/sunday-poser/ I probably Google stuff about once a day. Sometimes it is to find a meaning for a word, sometimes facts I want to put in a story. I need to do some researching, in how local newspapers work, the police, the drug trade. A writer, when they Google – When IContinue reading “Sometimes”
It’s My Life
Inspiration from https://earthlycomforts.uk/2023/02/19/a-wild-aloha-to-you-20/ Who do you think you might be in an alternate universe? I don’t know, it depends on what has happened in my life that was different to now. I might be more confident, hopefully. What would be the most surreal situation you could imagine finding yourself in? 2020 was surreal, being confinedContinue reading “It’s My Life”
A Friend In Time
A FRIEND IN TIME My heart pounding in my chest, Imagination to reveal the rest, I crept towards this friendly face, With an increasing fumbling grace, Every moment caught in time, Wishing courage would stay mine, But several times I tried to turn, But then knew I would never learn That true friendship can overturnContinue reading “A Friend In Time”
Chatterbox
Written in response to https://fivedotoh.com/2023/02/18/fowc-with-fandango-boring/ Behaving in a way, rabbiting non stop, Over sharing your ideas. Reeling off facts like a bee buzzing around In and out of their ear, will it ever cease Never stopping, please there must be an end of Giving the world too much chatting.
Streaming
I have written my story for https://lindaghill.com/2023/02/17/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-feb-18-2023/ Sitting at her computer, she went to type the last chapter of her novel. Although, it was hard to find the words to fit the pictures in her mind. The television on in the background, she was half listening to Miss Marple do her thing. Why does itContinue reading “Streaming”